Dibango, Manu
Music
Age 86
December 12, 1933 - March 24, 2020
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Manu Dibango (1933–2020) was a Cameroonian saxophonist, composer, and bandleader whose genre-blending style made him one of Africa’s most influential musical ambassadors. Born in Douala, he moved to Europe as a teenager and de...
Plath, Otto
Writers and Poets
Age 55
April 13, 1885 - November 5, 1940
Winthrop Cemetery / Winthrop / Massachusetts / United States / North America
Otto Emil Plath was a German-American writer, academic, and biologist. After reading the writings of Charles Darwin, Plath also developed an interest in biology. In the following years, Plath taught and studied in both German and...
Petrucciani, Michel
Music
Age 36
December 28, 1962 - January 6, 1999
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Michel Petrucciani's ambition to become a pianist was fired when he saw a televised Duke Ellington concert when he was four. However, from birth he had osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disease that causes brittle bones and, in h...
Balzac, Honoré de
Writers and Poets
Age 51
May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was one of the most influential writers of 19th-century French literature and a central figure in the development of literary realism. After initially studying law and briefly working in publishing ...
Bolin, Tommy
Music
Age 25
August 1, 1951 - December 4, 1976
Calvary Cemetery / Sioux City / Iowa / USA / North America
Tommy Bolin was an American rock guitarist and songwriter who played with Zephyr (from 1969 to 1971), the James Gang (from 1973 to 1974) and Deep Purple (from 1975 to 1976), in addition to maintaining a career as a solo artist and...
Olivier, Laurence
Show Business
Age 82
May 22, 1907 - July 11, 1989
Westminster Abbey / London SW1P 3PA / England / UK / Europe
Laurence Olivier was one of the most influential actors, directors and producer of the 20th century, renowned for his commanding Shakespearean performances on stage and screen. Born in 1907, he rose to prominence in British theatr...
Holgado, Ticky
Show Business
Age 59
June 24, 1944 - January 22, 2004
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Ticky Holgado was a French character actor known for his short stature, distinctive face and heavy Southern accent. Holgado's original vocation was to be a musician. After playing in a band as a teenager, he found work in the Fren...
Mouloudji, Marcel
Show Business
Age 71
September 16, 1922 - June 14, 1994
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Marcel Mouloudji started as a street urchin and a street singer, and his long career always reflected those early beginnings. He was a real Paris sparrow, light and quick, agile, graceful and symbolic of a certain romanticism of t...
Django, Reinhardt
Music
Age 43
January 23, 1910 - May 16, 1953
Cimetière de Samois-sur-Seine / Samois-sur-Seine / Seine-et-Marne / France / Europe
Django Reinhardt was a pioneering Belgian-born Romani guitarist and composer who became one of the most influential figures in European jazz. After a caravan fire in 1928 severely injured his left hand—leaving two fingers partia...
Wilson, Jackie
Music
Age 49
June 9, 1934 - January 21, 1984
Westlawn Cemetery / Wayne / Michigan / USA / North America
Jackie Wilson was an American singer who was a prominent figure in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. Nicknamed "Mr. Excitement", he was considered a master showman and one of the most dynamic singers and performers in ...
Lennon, Julia
The Odd and the Interesting
Age 44
March 12, 1914 - July 15, 1958
Allerton Cemetery Liverpool UK / Allerton, Liverpool L19 5NF / United Kingdom / Europe
Julia Lennon was the mother of English musician John Lennon, who was born during her marriage to Alfred Lennon. After complaints to Liverpool's Social Services by her eldest sister Mimi Smith (née Stanley), she surrendered the ca...
Higelin, Jacques
Music
Age 77
October 18, 1940 - April 6, 2018
Cimetière du Père Lachaise / Paris / France / Europe
Jacques Higelin (1940–2018) was a pioneering French singer-songwriter and performer who helped reshape French popular music by blending chanson, rock, jazz, and theatrical performance. He began his career in the 1960s as an acto...
Lewis, C. S.
Writers and Poets
Age 64
November 29, 1898 - November, 22 1963
Holy Trinity Church / Headington Quarry / Oxford, OX3 8NU, England / United Kingdom / Europe
C. S. Lewis was a British author, literary scholar and Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at both Magdalen College, Oxford (1925–1954), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (1954–1963). He is...
Coltrane, John
Music
Age 40
September 23, 1926 - July 17, 1967
Pinelawn Memorial Park / Farmingdale / New York / USA / North America
John Coltrane was one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century, whose career transformed the sound and scope of modern jazz. He first gained national attention in the 1950s playing with bandleaders like Miles Dav...
Maybrick, Florence Chandler
Crime and their Victims
Age 79
September 3, 1862 - October 23, 1941
Saint Michael's Chapel Graveyard / Kent / Connecticut / USA / North America
Florence Chandler Maybrick (1862–1941) was an American woman whose life became one of the most controversial legal dramas of the Victorian era. Born Florence Elizabeth Chandler in Mobile, Alabama she married much older English c...